nsWeb, communicating with internet explorer

deuces · 7th October 2005, 03:38

I'm using a simple questionaire popup in my installer, with the wonderful nsWeb plugin. Don't worry I'm not subjecting people to popup hell! I'd like to pass a resulting value from the questionaire back to my installer when the popup closes and don't know how to do this. Well, one way would be to set a cookie with the popup and retrieve it with the installer, but that seems a little hokey. I'd rather if there was a way for IE to pass a simple value to the installer when I close the IE window.

Anyone have a clue for how to do this or where to start looking?

Much thanks,
Joe

Joel · 7th October 2005, 13:56

Well... seems like that's a good for my TODO list

At the moment, no. With the current build, theres no way... cookie should do the trick...

deuces · 7th October 2005, 17:33

Yeah, I'll just use a cookie unless I'm feeling adventurous enough to dig into your plugin code (my C is a little rusty).

Thanks,
Joe

7th October 2005, 03:38	#1
deuces Junior Member Join Date: Oct 2005 Posts: 2	nsWeb, communicating with internet explorer I'm using a simple questionaire popup in my installer, with the wonderful nsWeb plugin. Don't worry I'm not subjecting people to popup hell! I'd like to pass a resulting value from the questionaire back to my installer when the popup closes and don't know how to do this. Well, one way would be to set a cookie with the popup and retrieve it with the installer, but that seems a little hokey. I'd rather if there was a way for IE to pass a simple value to the installer when I close the IE window. Anyone have a clue for how to do this or where to start looking? Much thanks, Joe

7th October 2005, 13:56	#2
Joel Debian user (Forum King) Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Arch land Posts: 4,917	Well... seems like that's a good for my TODO list At the moment, no. With the current build, theres no way... cookie should do the trick... * PC: Intel Core 2 DUO E6550 @ 2.33 GHz with 2 GB RAM: Archlinux-i686 with MATE. * Laptop: Intel Core 2 DUO T6600 @ 2.20 GHz with 4 GB RAM: Archlinux-x86-64 with MATE.

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7th October 2005, 17:33	#3
deuces Junior Member Join Date: Oct 2005 Posts: 2	Yeah, I'll just use a cookie unless I'm feeling adventurous enough to dig into your plugin code (my C is a little rusty). Thanks, Joe